Campus News

UB rises significantly in ranking of world universities

By PATRICIA DONOVAN

QS World University Rankings, one of the most influential and
widely observed international university ranking, has ranked UB No.
302 out of the 800 top world universities considered in its 2013-14
rankings.

UB’s ranking has increased steadily since 2008. In
2012-13, UB was No. 313 in a list of 800; in 2011-12, its score was
337.

The QS World University Ranking for 2013-14 is posted on its website and on partner
websites, including The Guardian, Chosun Ilbo (a major South Korean
daily) and other leading media around the world.

First compiled in 2004, the QS World University Rankings
considers more than 2,000 institutions and ranks 800. QS collected
90,000 survey responses to determine its rankings. Eight thousand
universities in nations throughout the world applied to be included
in the rankings.

UB’s most notable scores were in the following areas:
academic citations of research conducted by UB faculty (rank: 57),
international students (181), arts and humanities (291), life
sciences and medicine (280), academic reputation (431) and
international faculty (320).

The QS ranking is produced and published by British educational
company Quacquarelli Symonds, and
is one of the three most influential and widely observed
international university rankings, along with the Academic Ranking
of World Universities and the Times Higher Education World
University Rankings, the latter of which jointly published the
ratings with QS from 2004-10.

According to QS, its key ranking system is based very loosely on
the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education in
the U.S., but operated on a much simpler basis.

Although institutions vary substantially in terms of funding,
scale, location, mission, output and many other aspects, QS says
that all of its ranked institutions have as their aim to teach
students and produce research, and are compared within the
categories of size, focus and research intensity.

UB was considered as a historic, large institution, fully
comprehensive with a very high level of research
intensity.